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Steerforth Press
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"This eye-opening and thought-provoking examination of marriage, from the Colonial era through the #MeToo age, builds a compelling case that when marriage is touted as "the solution" to problems such as injustice, sexual violence and race-based discrimination, it absolves the government and society as a whole from taking responsibility."--
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Tana Fairchild's life has been planned out since the moment she was born: she is to marry the governor's son, Landon, and secure an unprecedented alliance between the witches of her island home and the mainlanders who see her very existence as a threat. Tana's coven has appeased those who fear their power for years by releasing most of their magic into the ocean during the full moon. But when Tana misses the midnight ritual, there is no one she can...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"From the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the story of our wedding vows-what they mean and why they still matter. In the West, marrying is so thoroughly identified with ceremonial promises that "taking vows" is a synonym for getting married. So,it's a surprise to realize that this custom is actually a historical and anthropological oddity. Most of the world, for most of history, married without making promises. And there's a reason for that....
4) Love novel
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Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us to the frontlines of a war waged between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, trying to change the world and write a novel. She, once a passable actress with a vaguely rewarding theater job,now a stay-at-home mom. He is delirious with dreams of grandeur; she is on edge, a detonator bomb with a dirty laundry trigger. The rent is late, the neighbor caviling, the government astoundingly...
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2023.
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English
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"Ascendant novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Patrick is older than J.B., formerly her professor, now a film director and cult figure. But now his success is starting to wane and J.B. is on the cusp of winning a major literary prize. Her art has been forever overseen by him; now it may overshadow his. For days they sail in the sun, nothing but dark water all around them. Then a...
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"Maya Mirza's unlucky-in-love past seems to be turning around when she ends up in an arranged marriage to the on-paper perfect man; but as she heads to her wedding in Pakistan, she finally meets the man of her dreams, who isn't the man to whom she is arranged to be wed."--
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"Stunned by her recently widowed father's reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world--where the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all. Frankie Attleboro returns home to Cape Cod with thrilling news. She's met the love of her life, and they're getting married with a baby on the way. That's the moment her father makes his own jas-dropping announcement: at sixty, he's getting married as...
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"As Celine and Luke prepare to walk down the aisle, the best man tries to move on from his love for Luke; the bride's sister believes Luke is a serial cheater; and a wedding guest observes from a distance-each looking for a path to their own happily ever after. "--
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2023
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English
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"Claire Powell's life is turned upside down when her beloved husband admits to a "near affair." But when Stephen accepts a partnership with an Atlanta law firm without consulting her and buys a historic Southern home sight-unseen--it pushes their already-fractured marriage to the breaking point. Claire's world spirals, and she soon finds herself in a marriage she no longer wants, in a house she never asked for. In 1863, Charlotte Thursmann, pregnant...
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When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria....
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"A fearless, engaging, and important memoir . . . Readers will learn the true meaning of military service through the wider lens of its impact on families and communities. -- Library Journal, starred When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia -- a town so foreign she might as well have landed on the moon. With her husband frequently deployed, Simone is left to find...
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Amelia is desperate for a second chance after losing her boyfriend, her best friend, and her job. She just wasn't expecting that second chance to be on a Greek island...with a newly gifted, rundown hotel to run...and accidentally married to a total stranger. As they say in Greece- Opa! It's all fun and games until you accidentally marry a stranger in Greece and inherit a hotel. Amelia Lang's life is kind of a mess. She's stuck living at home with...
16) The marble queen
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2024.
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English
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"A sapphic YA graphic novel with sword fighting, political intrigue and magic where the princess needs a marriage alliance for the welfare of her kingdom, but she unknowingly accepts a proposal from a mysterious country, having come not from the prince, but his sister."--
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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An award-winning author presents the history and impact of both the theatrical and cinematic versions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and how it forced audiences to confront deeply-held concepts about relationships, sex and family.
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"College exes break all the rules when they reunite years later in this enemies to lovers, second chance romance, the highly anticipated companion novel to the TikTok sensation The Cheat Sheet-from the New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect. Nora Mackenzie's entire career lies in the hands of famous NFL tight end Derek Pender who also happens to be her extremely hot college ex-boyfriend. Nora didn't end things as gracefully as...
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"From the bestselling author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, a fierce, gripping novel about Native life, motherhood and mental health that follows a young Mohawk woman who discovers that the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her ever-charming husband Steve--a white academic whose area of...
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Father of the Bride meets Bride Wars in Forever Hold Your Peace, in which two ex-best friends find themselves shockingly entangled after more than two decades apart, for fans of Good Company.
When their newly engaged kids ask all four divorced parents to meet each other over brunch, everyone RSVPs yes—secretly hoping someone at the table will get to the bottom of the bottomless mimosas fast enough to say what...
When their newly engaged kids ask all four divorced parents to meet each other over brunch, everyone RSVPs yes—secretly hoping someone at the table will get to the bottom of the bottomless mimosas fast enough to say what...
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